Browsing NSIS Volume 43, Part 2 by Issue Date
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DESIGN STUDY OF NOVEL LIGHT GUIDE GEOMETRY FOR SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)Two scintillating panels (S1 and S2) have been used as triggers in the high resolution spectrometers in HallAofthe Thomas Jefferson NationalAccelerator Facility. New panels are to be installed in place of S1 and S2 and ... -
NSIS Presidential Address and Reports from Council Officers, Session 2004-2005
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Marine Ecosystem Assessment: Past, Present and Future Attempts with Emphasis on the Eastern Scotian Shelf
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)The collapse of major fish stocks around the world, their failure to recover even after the cessation of fishing, and the perceived deficiencies in single species fisheries management has resulted in an intensified interest ... -
The Nova Scotian Institute of Science Student Science Awards 2005
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A History of Marine Fisheries Science in Atlantic Canada and its Role in the Management of Fisheries
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)The roots of fisheries science on the Atlantic coast of Canada go back to 1898. The primary research agencies were the Fisheries Research Board of Canada and predecessors until the early 1970s and subsequently the federal ... -
GROWTH AND PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE ACTIVITY OF Rhodotorula g/utinis: OPTIMIZATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF L-PHENYLALANINE
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)A procedure is described for the synthesis of L-phenylalanine from trans-cinnamic acid and ammonia utilizing the reverse reaction of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) from Rhodotoru/a glutinis. Optimal conditions determined ... -
Marine Geology in Atlantic Canada—A Government Perspective
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)The two priorities for government marine geoscience over the next decades are: (1) seabed mapping for ocean management, including safe and sustainable use of natural resources; and (2) societal responses in the coastal ... -
A COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR MODIFYING THE PARTIAL SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION IN LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)The tremendous size of the Internet and modem databases has made efficient searching and information retrieval (IR) important. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is an IR method that represents a dataset as a term-document ... -
Clear as Mud: The Type I/Type II Model for Death Receptor-Induced Apoptosis
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)Apoptosis is a highly organized form of cell death that plays an important regulatory role in many biological processes. The relationship between the two classical signalling pathways of apoptosis, the “death receptor” and ... -
Physical Oceanography in Atlantic Canada
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)Physical oceanography has been practiced in Atlantic Canada since the beginnings of the science in the second half of the 19th century. Pursued largely as an applied science, its efforts have been directed toward providing ... -
RATIONAL DRUG DESIGN: A WINDOW INTO THE AMBITIOUS QUEST OF A NEUROLOGIST AND CHEMIST
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)In the difficult world of drug discovery, two main courses of action are open: one is to screen extensive libraries of chemical compounds against hundreds of disease models; another is to acquire a detailed understanding ... -
General Introduction: Marine Science Essays
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Biological Oceanography in Canada (with Special Reference to Federal Government Science)
(Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2006)This is a personal account of the history, accomplishments and future of biological oceanography in Canada with emphasis on Canadian government research. Canadian biological oceanographers have a rich history pre-dating ... -
Front Matter
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